Do you craft?

Sylvermynx

Combination: 2 PC/NA mains (2 accounts) are getting toward Master Crafter, all my alts craft low level stuff when I'm feeling short of gold (used to do all of them every day, but burnt myself out last anniversary); 2 PC/EU mains craft every day and researching etc. toward Master Crafter; alts there craft when out of gold for riding training.

Alinhbo_Tyaka

Downgrade deluxe crafter (All chars - max level crafting skills with research traits)

CaptainVenom wrote: »

Only one crafter, which is my only, main character. Why would someone spend time and gold doing research and buying motifs for a second crafter?

I am almost done leveling a second crafter though I am only taking it to eight traits. All research gear, motifs and other leveling items that the character needs are picked up through quest lines or are provided by my fully leveled main crafter. Unlike my main character leveling a second character in crafting hasn't cost me any gold. In fact the character makes gold via daily crafting writs and the additional Master writs it receives. Another driver is I don't like the class the character plays and figure making it a crafter is better than throwing it away. I don't see myself ever becoming a mega crafter but two or maybe three are very manageable and at no additional cost over the first.

redlink1979

Only main crafter (1 char)

EU server - My main char is the grand master crafter: all traits researched in every crafting skill, at least 55 styles fully learned, knows all the purple n all the golden provisioning recipes including Mythical Aetherial Ambrosia. Learns all the furnishing pages I find - I'm not sure how many furniture pieces I can craft but they're quite a lot atm (also has acquired all the golden recipes from voucher vendor)
My 7 alt chars have all the crafting ranks and passives at max, most of the traits are already learned and some of them have some style motifs complete - they all fully learned Hallowjack n Skinchanger at least due to the ratio drop rates from events thru the years.
Daily writs done with all of them.

NA server - My main char has already maxed some crafting ranks in all the crafting skills and currently learning some traits. Some motif style pages learned already n some recipes.
One alt char atm who I'm still leveling in crafting ranks n passives mainly because I'm trying to gather more resources from different levels.

redlink1979

Only main crafter (1 char)

zvavi wrote: »

Cirantille wrote: »

DocDova wrote: »

Currently doing daily writs on 17 characters but only 1 is master crafter.

Do they still get gold mats? Even lvl 1 crafting skills

Yes, ez gold mats, but no master writs.

I get some master writs once in a while with my alts but not as often as I get with my main.

redlink1979

Only main crafter (1 char)

January1171 wrote: »

Technically my alts aren't maxed out yet, but I am working towards that.


Serious question: what's the advantage to learning motifs on all of your characters? I understand maxing skills and research and the benefits from that, but I can't think of a reason that would make learning motifs on all chars worth the time+money

Master writs ratio drop: the more fully learned motif styles the char knows, higher are the odds of getting master writs in daily writs rewards.

Trancestor

Only main crafter (1 char)

Uvi_AUT wrote: »

I am a compulsory Crafter. I cant play a character that doesnt have all Crafts at 50 and is constantly researching. They always feel, I dont know, empty without.

go seek therapy

Katahdin

I have 2 master crafters with all traits and most motifs (still working on some).

All my other characters are level 50 in cloth, wood and metal. Some have all the others maxed. Still working on getting them all maxed.

InaMoonlight

None of the options fit, 1 Main crafter with the master crafter ach, and a whooole lot of writters who were "only" craftmaxed for writs ;D

JKorr

Cirantille wrote: »

How far you went with crafting?

My main is all maxed out with motifs, research etc but for my alts I gotta say I started pretty dedicated but halfway through I am a little overwhelmed, I am curious how do you do?

It is of course a stable way of income but...

One main crafter with all motifs and recipes. Every one of the full roster of alts has/will have maxed crafting and 8 traits researched. There is no reason to try to duplicate all the motifs on alts.

AcadianPaladin

One character does Blacksmithing, Clothing, Wood, Jewelry, Enchanting. 9 trait, almost all motifs.

Another does Furniture, Provisioning, Alchemy. Focuses on learning furniture and food recipes.

Other characters only go for the perks to boost food/potion durations and to more effectively gather/deconstruct stuff. They don't actually craft anything.

InaMoonlight

Writs are a very reliable and nifty income ;D Mmmmh suuuurrrrveyssss *drools into keyboard*

heaven13

Downgrade deluxe crafter (All chars - max level crafting skills with research traits)

I do writs on all of my characters; about half of them currently do top tier gear writs, almost all do top tier alchemy/enchanting. Just a matter of getting skill points as I go. The only one that I don't get everyone to top in is provisioning. Instead, I split those levels equally between my characters (so 3 do tier 6, 3 do tier 5, etc).

My main and my original master crafter are 9-traits while the rest have or are working towards 8-traits in everything but jewelry.

As for motif knowledge, both my main and master crafter have invested gold in that, though it wasn't initially planned to be that way. My master crafter is not my main because my main was not my achievement hunter. Now that I have decided to pursue achievements with my main, she needs to learn motifs that the other has already learned. An expensive mistake, for sure.

Siohwenoeht

Master crafter (All chars but only max level crafting skills)

I have one crafter that I funnel motifs to and has all traits researched and maxed hirelings.

I have 11 other toons that are max level in crafting, but are kept at separate levels in the crafting trees so I have a supply of each material type to sell on the side.

So I guess I'm somewhere between my vote and the next level up lol.

dennissomb16_ESO

My original character does all my crafting (just crafting nothing else)

max_only

Master crafter (All chars but only max level crafting skills)

All my characters have their crafting skills lines at 50 because it gave them exp while they were leveling up.
Only one character has motifs and all traits.

CMDR_Un1k0rn

Downgrade deluxe crafter (All chars - max level crafting skills with research traits)

Trancestor wrote: »

Uvi_AUT wrote: »

I am a compulsory Crafter. I cant play a character that doesnt have all Crafts at 50 and is constantly researching. They always feel, I dont know, empty without.

go seek therapy

If only it were so simple for OCD...

Trust me I know, and have tried.

kringled_1

Master crafter (All chars but only max level crafting skills)

None of the options is quite right but to expand. All characters are at 50 in all crafting skill lines (I have one or two low level characters finishing out alchemy and provisioning). I have a master crafter. The rest all have at least alchemy (so they can make their own potions on demand) at top level, and most have 1-2 other crafts at top level, and the others at level 1. All can refine/deconstruct most items efficiently, and have 5-6 traits researched to make transmutation easy.

Cerotonin

Only main crafter (1 char)

I have about 10+ characters, but I’ve never understood how people keep up with all their research on all their toons. I know, CraftStore add-on, but I barely got all my traits on my main toon. It was tedious and so easy to forget about too lol.

Anotherone773

Crafty alfiq?

Im going to use this as the " Other" option. I have 3 maxed out crafters and the rest are level 1. All know green recipes( for writs), all working on cheaper motif sets, only main is gaining all recipe/furnishing/motif knowledge. Im working on getting more up to master crafter level but i wait until a character has learned a sufficient amount of motifs, has level 50 in the skill, has over 75% traits researched, and has enough spare skill points.

CaptainVenom wrote: »

Only one crafter, which is my only, main character. Why would someone spend time and gold doing research and buying motifs for a second crafter?

Because it matters for master writs.

January1171 wrote: »

Technically my alts aren't maxed out yet, but I am working towards that.


Serious question: what's the advantage to learning motifs on all of your characters? I understand maxing skills and research and the benefits from that, but I can't think of a reason that would make learning motifs on all chars worth the time+money

@January1171 From what i have read and from my own observation,

* You dont get master writs unless the skill is full trained
* Research seems to affect the frequency of writs you get for equipment.
- For food it seems to be ( purple?) recipes.
- For enchanting, it seems to be runes discovered.
- For alchemy ingredient traits known.
*The number of complete purple motif styles known seem to increase the value of the master writs. If you compare a character that only knows a few purple styles to one that knows most, you will see the one that knows a few might get a writ every once in a while in the 10s and 20s rarely might get one up around 50 and a majority will be under 10. On a crafter with a good portion of styles fully learned 10-30 writs become pretty common, 30-70 range become more frequent and you start getting writs in the low hundreds.


I farm my own motifs most of the time so the lower value ones all go to my other crafters in a pecking order. I do this casually as i typically have 2-4 characters parked in a farming spot in the world and rotate through which ones are farming and which ones are being played.

I also set all my characters up to be able to do quick dailies. Making sure the dailies are available to them and wayshrines to all possible places they need to go are unlocked. Then during the anniversary event i do crafting writs on everyone, i then cycle through them for the faster dailies, and the move to dailies that take longer on a third pass until i get tired or board of doing dailies that day.

This results in a rather large amount of anniversary boxes which results in a rather large amount of motifs in all styles. I will apply the cheaper styles and save the harder to get styles except for my main who gets all unknown pages.

When the event is over i will go shopping on each character as style prices will hit rock bottom for the year. I will spend a few million on styles, some for me and some more rare ones for my bank. Then when we get into fall most styles will have lost all the excessive overstock and i will spend the winter selling off my stock for 10,20,50 times and more what i paid for it 6 months ago.

I use the money from that to fund buying more motifs after the next event some for me and some for sale. And it increase the amount of master writs i get and can do which means i can buy more rare stuff for my own use and to sell.

It doesnt take me any money to learn styles because other people fund it. All i have to do is let stacks of pages sit somewhere. And the reward for any time spent more than makes it worth it.

BoraxFlux

Only main crafter (1 char)

One main crafter to provide for all others. She has everything maxxed out, every trait learned, one trait left from jewelry and that one will be completed in two days.

Other chars decon whatever they find for mats and progression, anything above blue quality goes mainly to my crafter.

It took me around 2 years to get my crafter where she is now, but I'm in no hurry, reaching Mastercrafter someday would be nice, 8 motifs and 48 masterwrits to go.

Danikat

Only main crafter (1 char)

I started out with each character learning a few crafts, planning to share them all out between characters. But motifs killed that idea - there's no way I'm going to waste my time and gold getting multiple copies of all the motifs I might want.

So instead I have one dedicated crafter who maxed out all the crafts and makes stuff for everyone else.

Tryxus

Downgrade deluxe crafter (All chars - max level crafting skills with research traits)

I have my main and a dedicated crafter, both Grand Master Crafters Motif-wise, they both have about 55-60

Unfadingsilence

Master crafter (All chars but only max level crafting skills)

18 max level crafters but only 1 toon with all books and traits cuz there's no point in having more than 1 toon for that

RABIDxWOLVERINE

Master crafter (All chars but only max level crafting skills)

Main Crafter has most motifs, fully leveled and all research.

All my alt crafters I just try to get to lvl 50 in all 7 professions then just do writs for master writs, surveys and other mats.

Chaos2088

Ultra mega size deluxe crafter (All chars - max level crafting skills with all research traits + motifs)

I have all motifs on once character to do mater writs on, but I just find it annoying to switch charcters if want to craft or upgrade something.

Kiralyn2000

• Other

My original 'main' is max level, lots of motifs/recipes/furniture, and a few Nirncrafted away from all research
A couple other not-quite-mains are max level, get all my duplicate motifs, and research whatever loot drops into my lap.
A couple others are working their way to max level
The rest are all crafts/level 1. For writs

I do the actual crafting on the 'main', but do writs on all of them.

RD065

Only main crafter (1 char)

1 character but just Alchemy and Provision. Others take too long and my only source of gold is to sell my stuff I grab while leveling. Plus my main changes weekly (I start a new character weekly).

Loralai_907

Downgrade deluxe crafter (All chars - max level crafting skills with research traits)

Its a work in progress. Only my main pve/crafter gets 9 trait everything and all of the motifs. The rest, they are either at or will be at 8 trait on wood/cloth/blacksmithing and whatever is convenient for jewelry. And all the alts only get the el cheapo motifs. But I also have like 80 kabillion characters so they are all at various stages of this long term plan.

Hapexamendios

Half master, half merchant

Oreyn_Bearclaw

One crafter that is fully maxed, usually 3-6 months behind in knowing all motifs as I wait for events to grab ones I am missing. Other 16 toons are all level 50 in everything but jewelry crafting, still have a few more to level in that arena (think I have 11 or 12 maxed in JC). At one point, I started doing research on my other characters, but I gave up. I just coudlnt tell a difference with rewards from writs, which was really the only reason to do it (I think supposedly you get better Master Writs).